National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5410
Original release date:12/10/2008
Last revised:03/04/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The PK11_SESSION cache in the OpenSSL PKCS#11 engine in Sun Solaris 10 does not maintain reference counts for operations with asymmetric keys, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (failed cryptographic operations) via unspecified vectors, related to the (1) RSA_sign and (2) RSA_verify functions.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-139459-01-1
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-138863-02-1
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33050
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: solaris-openssl-pkcs11engine-dos(47137)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021358
External Source: BID
Name: 32671
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3372
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 246846
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5914
